Genius
First member of ASlite to receive a infraction
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- 355
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2015
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- Uncle Willys basement
I realize that I am a freaking Genius, but when it comes to actually burning wood for heat I am ignorant.
We are considering selling our current house and building a new house. Right now we are in the process of looking at building plans so we can talk to builders on what this new potential house would cost us before we start talking to realtors on our current pad.
My wife is actually not very high maintenance, she only has 2 things that she really wants in this new place. One of them is a fireplace. She wants something in the room thats encased by stone....
So what kind of options do I have??? We have a few friends who have masonry fireplaces. The thing is with their fire places is that they only light a fire in them a few times a year, and when the fire is going it does absolutly nothing for heat. In fact I think the furnaces run more when the fireplace is going. It seems like when the fire is going that the heat from the fire is pulling the cooler air from the house out and up the chimney.
We are not wanting a stand alone stove that sits in the corner of the house. We have a lot of friends with young kids that know no difference and we dont need them walking or crawling up to a stove and touching it. I realize that new wood stoves are extremely efficient and we would have one if we didn't have so many friends with young kids.
My question, is there a "efficient fireplace"? I am assuming that I can't buy a insert and build a rock wall around it and be good to go.....
Emulegs and Dirty Hippy..... This site has sub forums for everything, except something for burning wood.... FFS
You mods aught to grow some balls
We are considering selling our current house and building a new house. Right now we are in the process of looking at building plans so we can talk to builders on what this new potential house would cost us before we start talking to realtors on our current pad.
My wife is actually not very high maintenance, she only has 2 things that she really wants in this new place. One of them is a fireplace. She wants something in the room thats encased by stone....
So what kind of options do I have??? We have a few friends who have masonry fireplaces. The thing is with their fire places is that they only light a fire in them a few times a year, and when the fire is going it does absolutly nothing for heat. In fact I think the furnaces run more when the fireplace is going. It seems like when the fire is going that the heat from the fire is pulling the cooler air from the house out and up the chimney.
We are not wanting a stand alone stove that sits in the corner of the house. We have a lot of friends with young kids that know no difference and we dont need them walking or crawling up to a stove and touching it. I realize that new wood stoves are extremely efficient and we would have one if we didn't have so many friends with young kids.
My question, is there a "efficient fireplace"? I am assuming that I can't buy a insert and build a rock wall around it and be good to go.....
Emulegs and Dirty Hippy..... This site has sub forums for everything, except something for burning wood.... FFS
You mods aught to grow some balls